Broadwood Rectangular Tuning tip

[gordon stelter]

Please be warned, if you haven't noticed, that a lot
of these old Broadwoods have the pins threaded into
the PLATE. NO TAPPING!!!I have tightened such by
flipping piano over, and dousing block with several
bottles of Pin Tite from underneath. Not CA. I figured
CA might run into plate threads, glue solid.
     Gordon Stelter
 P.S. Despite derisive comments to contrary, PinTite
REALLY WORKS WELL when applied in this manner!!!
Spinnin' pins ROCK SOLID 1 year later!!!!!

Lance Lafargue <lancelafargue@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Thanks Bill.  I have that adaptor and will try it w/
> the oblong tip.  I have
> also ordered the hammer w/built in tip because I was
> told it fit the pins
> much better.  I wonder what was used originally.  I
> have been given some
> parts suppliers in Britain, too that I may try. 
> Thanks again.
> Lance Lafargue, RPT
> Mandeville, LA
> New Orleans Chapter, PTG
> lancelafargue@bellsouth.net
> 985.72P.IANO
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org
> [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
> Of Maxpiano@AOL.COM
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:07 PM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Broadwood Rectangular Tuning tip
> 
> 
> Lance,
> 
> I've had such a tip for years--I think it was called
> "oblong."  From Hale.
> I
> found it very inconvenient to place on the pin since
> there are only two
> positions--180 degrees apart--that it will fit when
> the tip is screwed onto
> the tuning hammer head.
> 
> My solution was to remove the tip from the head and
> instead screw it onto
> the
> square adapter that was available.  It has a male
> thread to fit the tip, and
> extends out from it with roughly the shape of a
> square tuning pin.  Whenever
> I tune a piano with oblong pins, I place the
> tip/adapter onto the pin, then
> my hammer with standard star tip onto the adapter.
> 
> It is not a perfect solution in that extra moves are
> required, and the
> tuning
> hammer will not stay in place when I let go; but it
> does get around the
> problem of finding an acceptable tuning position.
> 
> Bill Maxim, RPT
> Maxim Piano Service
> Columbia, SC
> 


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